dimanche 1 mai 2016

Many beginners misunderstand the meaning of puerh tea wrapped with CNNP classic wrappers. It's much more than a question of big Chinese state factories, or some counterfeit produced by some small and hidden forgers. CNNP wrappers just became for decades the default wrapper used by nearly everybody, in an outside Yunnan. I took for example this photos some days ago in a small factory in Thailand like thousands others, and who every year press several tons of CNNP wrapped tea cake (with Menghai Tea Factory Nei Fei, Nei Piao and Big Ticket). All the productions of this fatory are form more than 20 years ordered by Hong-Kong sellers, wet-stored in Thailand during 5 to 10 years, and shipped to Hong-Kong to be stored longer or sold directly on local market or in mainland China...

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About the author

Olivier Schneider is a tea lover and puerh tea expert. He spent the last ten years in Yunnan China, to study puerh tea and its culture. Olivier Schneider is the author of www.puerh.fr website, one of the more precise source of informations about puerh tea avaliable online, and where he regurally publish fragments of his researches.

Olivier Schneider is currently living in a small Dai village in Xishuangbanna mountains, where he gives tea education and manage several researches about puerh tea and tea culture in southeast asia. He also works as expert and consultant for different tea houses and tea brands around the world.

This blog is an humble attempt to document everyday life in the heart of tea...